Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Sub-optimal ordering of rev-building in star-merge

[Aaron Bentley]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> - Aha the latest is 142, so let's built that.
> - Aha the common ancestor is 135 so let's build that.
>
> Since the second came after the first, 142 was build from 59 by applying
> patches 60->142, while 135 was built from 59 as well by applying patch
> 60->135.
> Obviously, in this case the two steps should have been done in the
> opposite order.  This was with tla-1.2

I hate that too, but it's impossible to know that 135 is the common 
ancestor before retrieving 142.

But it is being remedied: when my patches are merged, it will produce 
135 by building backwards from 142.

If you have disk space to burn, you can use a non-sparse greedy revision 
library, so that when you need 135, it's available.

Aaron

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